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Originally Posted by Ghitulescu
Are you telling me that editing text in 2014 needs a computing farm of Crays dipped in cryogenic nitrogen or else the mouse will not move on the screen? When I started editing for the University' Press I used a 286 (remember?  ) at 20MHz with 1MB RAM (from which a sensible part was taken by BIOS) and 80 MB HDD, it was a giant back then (12 and 16 MHz were standard, so 256kB RAM and 20MB HDD).
I made a test. I wrote Hello world! in MS Word 2010 and save it as .DOCX. Wow, almost 16kB instead of 12B, the size of the ROM in an 1982 personal computer like Sinclair Spectrum ZX, which contained the BASIC interpreter as well.
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Sure a working system works, but the software moves on and you need capabilities that not all working systems have. if you have an older processor that runs XP but does not have SSE2, you may as well forget using Sigil and you may as well forget using Calibre 2. Windows 8.1 (and I would think any Windows after that) needs to have PAE, NX, and SSE2. It's not that you need faster or more cores, but you do need certain instructions as pointed out and if youre process doesn't have them, then you'll eventually need a new processor and that also may very well include a new motherboard and new memory. If you use the old style of hard drives (not SATA), then you will have to replace any hard drives/DVD drives as well. Things move on and when it gets to the point where what you have will no longer run what you want, then no matter how much you want to keep what you have because it works, you have to move on as well and if that means a new computer, so be it.
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And concerning end-of-cycle for XP, I really really don't understand the craze. The fear. The urge. Please raise your hand all those that relied on MS support, that you fear you lost it when MS announced they ended their support. My music computer works happily with W98SE (15 years old) and have no issues at all.
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If what you run still runs on older hardware and an older OS< that's fine. But Sigil and Calibre do not and will not and the only thing you can do is upgrade. Someday, new Calibre plugins won't run with Qt4. Someday you might find new features of Sigil or Calibre are what you want but they won't run. So while things are working well enough for now, start saving to upgrade so by then time you have to upgrade, you'll have the money to do so.